SOCIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Homo Sapiens, Hominidae, Ethnocentrism
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The ways of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that together form a people"s way of life, All-encompassing term, shared way of life, the totality of uniquely human creation. Primary strategy fro human survival, regulated human behavior, puts constraints on what we are allowed to do. Material/tangible culture - items made or created by humans. Non-material culture - religion, politics, philosophy, music, ideology: basic components of a culture. Ordinary norms - handshakes, holding doors for others: primates - emerged 12 million years ago, evolved into humans and great apes. Went from being tree-dwellers to walking upright on the ground. Around 5 million years ago, primates became hunter-gatherers, developed weapons: around 250,000 years ago, homo sapiens ( thinking beings ) began to emerge. Homo sapiens in the middle east discovered that they could harvest crops on their own and use agriculture (horticulturalists), which sparked the beginning of civilization.
